Ingredients

Ingredients

Directions

Directions

1Let puff pastry stand at room temperature 40 minutes to thaw.

2Heat oven to 400°F. Unfold pastry on work surface. Using pastry brush, brush pesto evenly over all of pastry, including edges. Cut pastry into 16 squares; cut each square in half diagonally, making 32 triangles.

Notes

Tips

Expert Tips

Puff pastry is made of hundreds of layers of chilled butter and pastry dough. As it bakes, the moisture in the butter creates steam, causing the dough to puff and separate into hundreds of flaky layers.